Category Archives: English

This morning, our class finalists (Megan, Kezi, Evie, Harry, Phoebe, Kennie, Elliott, Yusif and Demi), took part in their first Bells Farm Spelling Bee competition in the school hall. They were very brave as this was in front of the rest of the school, speaking into a microphone!

A huge congratulations to Demi and Kezi who were the winners in their category of spelling words. Their fellow classmates were very supportive and proud of them. Congratulations!

Today, Bluebirds have been learning all about subordinating clauses. They experimented in a fun activity to investigate making sentences, by placing clauses in different places. They are looking forward to creating more amusing sentences with a dice game to randomly select clauses!

Bluebirds have been busy writing book reviews so that other children can read them to discover fantastic stories. We have talked about the stories in our author boxes and have shared our favourite stories together. The children all still love to hear stories read to to them. We talked about having a love of reading and doing it for enjoyment too. We are making a class book together with all the reviews which everyone will be able to use and look through. Kezi pointed out we could use our persuasive vocabulary from our English lessons! Some of our keen readers have requested extra review sheets to complete at home,about other super stories they have enjoyed.

Bluebirds linked their Computing data handling lesson with holidays as they have been writing persuasive texts about these in English. First, the children used a tally chart and decided to vote upon which was their favourite activity whilst away on holiday. There were lots of suggestions!

The children used the program 2Graph to create bar chart to present their information.

Some children then composed questions for others to answer using the data.

Today, Bluebirds experienced a new activity in Guided Reading, where they took part in Karaoke Comprehension which used the song entitled “This is Me” from the recent film, The Greatest Showman. Many of the children were already familiar with the song so it was really enjoyable. The children sang along with the lyrics which they were able to answer questions about afterwards.

• What is the message of the song? – Katerina explained the bearded woman knew she was unusual how she looked but she didn’t care and was proud of her self.

• Why do you think the title for the song is “This is Me?” – Evie explained the lady was singing about being accepted for what she was although she looked different.

• What do you think the words “broken parts” and “scars” refer to? – Megan – She is hurt from what has happened in the past. It is not easy to forget when people say/do hurtful thing to you.

• During the song the singer is supported by a choir. Why? Melissa – She felt scared but is brave her as other people with differences join and support her. They work together as a team.

• Why does she feel ashamed? – Niah – She used to hide away. People stared at her because she was a woman with a beard. She felt awkward and embarrassed.

• How does she feel about the way she is treated? Sophie – She feels unhappy and sad. Its unfair and she feels like standing up for herself.

Bluebirds were eager to hear this term’s Class Reader. Mrs Parry showed the children the accompanying illustrations in the book using her visualiser. Ottoline is clever at solving mysteries and puzzles. The blurb reads……a string of daring burglaries have taken place and precious dogs are disappearing all over the town. Can Ottoline and Mr Munroe come up with a clever plan to catch the robbers?!

Today, Mrs Parry presented Bluebirds with part of a fable she had written. Unfortunately, the children noticed a lot of errors that needed correcting! They got to work straight wait and helped Mrs Parry to edit her work!

Afterwards, the class considered how her writing could be improved and inserted some fronted adverbials. Suddenly, they realised she had not included ANY conjunctions so helped her to extend some of her sentences. Mrs Parry said she hopes Bluebirds do such a thorough job editing their own fables now!

Year 3 Bluebirds have completed their eBooks based on Ancient Egypt. During the last few lessons, Bluebirds have researched, designed and created a book based on a specific topic.

The children have been exploring and creating their eBooks using a website called Book Creator. They typed their facts and also inserted related images. The children tried various font styles and backgrounds to add further design to the page.

Some children managed to also add some audio to their books by reading the facts from each page.

Bluebirds produced some great cross curricular writing today once they heard all about the mummification process… not for the faint hearted!

The children watched a short video about the process and in pairs ordered a set of jumbled instructions. Bluebirds created a toolkit check list of what needs to be included in a set of instructions such as numbered/bullet pointed clear steps in order, time openers, imperative verbs, and a list of what is needed.

Today, Bluebirds were amazed to see the treasures that Howard Carter discovered in 1922.

They learnt how he found the sarcophagus in a second room with many treasures. The children continued to write their diary as Howard Carter and focused on descriptive sentences with adjectives, including feelings too.